Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-11
burned. Two of these are understood to

burned. Two OF these are UNDERSTOOD u
be Mr.. Wesson, the pistol manu-
facturer of Springfield, and Et
Brockelbanks, brakeman, bu
they died soon after. The two passen
ger coaches were well filled. Every BERT
: In the Boston sleeping car was occupied
! and twelve in the one from Springfield
] making the total number of passengers II
.Sthe wrecked cars about eighty. rms VII
s3probsbly make the number of dead be
dtween fifty and sixty. The bridge wa:
sEbetween thirty and forty feet above the
5fwater, which is covered with thlck Ice
81 making it probable that death resulted
nom crushing and,Eburning rather thar
ffesu drowning. Several were pinned VI
in the wreck who might have been res
cued bHsAfsr the flames. Brakeman
Parker, who was on the forward end Of
one of the passenger cars, felt the Al
and saved his life by lesping from Inc
falling train.
SOME OF THE KILLED.
BOsToN, MASS, Feb. "a dispatch
from Bradford, Vt, to the Associated
Press says: The night express whicnieft
White River Junction bound for Montreal
filed with passengers from Boston and
New York for the carnivsl, was wrecked a
the first crossing OF Waite river. \ raj
broke and two passenger coaches aud I've
sleeping cars plunged over the bridge
sixty feet into the river. Is fore the en-
giuecr or any one could get TO the wreck
the cars caught t.e and buried. TIE
bridge was also burned, end inside OF
gweSty minutes all were destroyed. / is
Eestimated th2t fifty persons We're killed.
Il HENRY TUXBURY of West Randolph,
Vt, the well known lecturer, was among
thsbliIed.
r. EDWARD I. DILLON Of Springti Id, Vi,
was. Elso killed. He was q member Of the
SaRhomO reSclass at Dartmouth: snd Was
piseher fer the University nine.
| 4, BIN EAsIE, c!assmate, was with
him, bqtsescaped unirjured.
The train consisted of one sleeping car
and passenger coach from here. one Chica-
60 sleeping car connected st White Rive"
Function, one mail car from Boston,
another passenger coach and one baggage
and one express car.
FRANK l.. WEssoN, who was killed,
was about thirty-tive years of age. He
leaves wife and four children. lie mar
iFi4d daughter of John Lowell Of Mon
treal, and was q brother-in-,aW Of John
| WsLovell, the New York publisher. He
| Intended to leave for Montreal Yesterday
morning by the day express, but there be-
! ing no parlor Ger attached to the train, he
| deferred his departure until Sis last
night, taking the sleeping car through TO
HoRtrealss He WGS accompanied by his
sister-fn-law, Miss Lowell, who was re
turning to her home in Montreal. l. is
understood that she was not seriously
injured.
The latest reports recsived here state
| the number OF killed reaches twenty, and
that about as many more are seriously
injured.
THE CONDUCTOR FATALLY BURNED.
g SPRINGFIELD, MASS, Feb. ). The
express train for MontreaI which lett
here at S:l5 lest night ran off the bridge
aS Woodstock, Vt, Two miles nOrl1 OF
White River J uGCtion, and the Sleeping
and passenger cars and the bridge were
entirely burned. Il is reported thst
large nufnBer of persons were injured
The number OF Killed ana burned is also
reported as large.
CONDUCTOR STURTEY.lNT was fatally
burned.
The accident occurred between l and
O'Clock this morning on the Central Yer
mont Road.
Later-The accident assumes frighttul
proportions as further particulars are
learned. The train was the Boston and
Montreal express, on the Vermont Cen
trail Road, which connected at White
River Junction with the Montreal eX-
press from Springfield, consisting of one
sleeping car and one passenger coach,
which are attached to the Boston and
Montreal train.
FRANK WESSON, son of D. B .Wesson of
this city, of the firm of Smith & Wessop,
pistol manufacturers, was killed, and it is
reported that the loss Of life is large.
STORY OF A VICTIM OF THE WRECK.
CONCORD, N. H, Feb. 5.-An occupant |
of the Boston sleeper, whose name could
not be ascertalned, passed through here |
this afternoon. He said the car was full, |
every berth being occupied. The train |
was late out of White River Junction.
When it left it had the sleeper from
Springfield besides & passenger car.
He thinks it must have been sbeHtf
2:l0 in the morning when he w&s zaRak- I
ened by the quiyeriGg of the car as if |.
1t was OFF the rails. TINS movement he I
noticed but short time When he became 1
conscious that the coach had gone oveT5
the abutment CT the bridge and was s;nksf
ing with trightful rapitity. TO add to
his CONSERVATION the car turned upside
down, ana when it struck the ice in thc
river the top was crushed in. He occupied
a lower berth, and " almost superhuman
efforts he SUCCEEDED in eXtricating himself
from the wreck. lie was wsll acquainted
with the occupant of the upper ber:h,
and as quickly as possible he
set himself at work to relieve his friend.
tie worked with energy but his Efforts
proved unsuccessful and he was finally
triyen away by the flames and
became involuntarily witness OF
he horrible death of his com
)anion, who was burned before his
eyes. He saw quite g number of lives
'escued, many with several bruises and
1nrns. But few bodies had been taken
'ut when he left. At that tire it was
impossible to ascertain the names or ,
lumber of the victims. He expressed
he belief, however, that not more than
hirty persons were killed. The railroad
bridge took fire from the wreck and was -,
otally destroyed.
GRAPHIC STORY OF CHARLES NJ. HOSMER
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, VT, FEB. 5. :
When the relief train from White River !
Junction reached the wreck the progress ,
# the flames had been so rapid that the !
bridge and four cars had been practically ,
destroyed. A few burning timbers were :
cen and the iron Of the brI6pa UaS ccot